Domestic Science: Artisanal Home Goods from Fattobene in Italy, Now Available Stateside - Remodelista
Fattobene (Italian for “well-made”) is an online shop dedicated to championing classic Italian household goods—little treasures from traditional handkerchiefs used to wrap bread to shaving brushes made of boar bristles.
“These are objects that have filled Italian people’s homes forever,” they told the MoMA Design Store, which is hosting Fattobene’s first ever pop-up shop outside Italy, at MoMA’s Soho location through September 29.
A sampling of Fattobene finds now available at the MoMA Design Store’s website and Soho location.
Ideal for use on paper, clothing, photographs, and labels, the non-toxic Coccoina Almond Glue ($7) comes in an aluminum tin, unchanged since the 1920s.
These nickel-plated steel Egg Scissors made in the Italian village of Premana—where there are nearly 130 cutting-tool companies in a town of 2,000 residents—are meant for slicing the top (shell and all) off of a soft-boiled egg; $25.
These beech Rainbow Hangers are made by Toscanini, an Italian company that has been in business since the 1920s; $30 for a set of 3.